8th Grade History

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Materials & Resources
  • Introductory American History (and World) and exercises
  • Intro Am Hist (pdf)
  • Bark Covered House
  • Princess Pocahontas
  • Reports
  • Today in History
  • Hyper History Text Book
  • A Short History of the World Text (Also Science) or

    Topics to be covered this year

    • Our African, Asian, and European backgrounds
      • (optional: info on Africa, African Americans, Africans in America, voices from the days of slavery, slave narratives)
      • (optional: info on China,  Chinese in California, or try a quiz (with videos) on the Chinese-American experience, Asian-American experience)
      • (optional: a German immigrant's story, early 20th Century European immigrants, an immigrant from Poland)
    • Exploration and discovery
    • Growth and development of the United States
    • Colonial life
    • Struggle for independence
    • U. S. Constitution and Bill of Rights
    • Westward movement in America
    • American Civil War
    • Reconstruction
    • U. S. as a world power
    • Meaning of democracy
    • Our American culture
    • U. S. political system and quiz
    • U. S. economic system
    • U. S. government
    • U. S. geography
    • Advanced map and globe skills

    Extras

    • Flash Card
    • Globe Print on Card Stock
    • Simple Globe Print on Card Stock